In much the same way that you need to have the proper equipment, paper and chemicals to properly make a print from a negative, you need to have the proper software and hardware to make a print from a digital file.
The analogy I find best is this: DNG is NOT the true negative format. RAW is. Ansel Adams Gallery is STILL making prints of Ansel's work using his original negatives. When I die, I want my negatives to be available. I don't trust that my ancient battered copy of the software that came with my camera will be compatable with Mac OS XIII, or for that matter, even still be readable on a vintage Mac G4 still running OS X because it was mass produced using crappy media.
There will always be a conversion process from the legacy format to the new, especially for photography considering it's massive importance to, oh, every single human being, from snapshots to advertising. Computers are not going to be created where you can't import data from your old computer to the new one, almost no one would buy the new one then. The whole point of improving on technology is to improve upon how to access and interact with current existing data. Starting over from scratch is never feasible in the market.
Given that, as technology improves, new formats are created, there will be a huge market push to convert the old formats to the new. Even if RAW is not supported, TIFF, JPG, whatever other format will be supported to be convertible to the new wave of digital formats.
Hence, unless you put a bunch of digital files in storage and forget about it for 25 years and don't follow the conversion process, then your data will be still accessible. Even if you did do that, and you did become as famous as Ansel, someone will find a 25 year old computer to start the conversion process, so they can enjoy your photos once again. But, I'd think if you were that famous... you would have kept up with the conversion process in the first place.
But at least 100 years from now, TIFF will still be the same. I can't say that Canon RAW or Nikon RAW will be the same, using the same software.
In 100 years from now, TIFF will not still be the same. Nothing in technology will be the same. In 25 years, TIFF will be either forgotten, or convertible/integrated into the new and improved process, and original TIFF will appear to be a piece of shit junk.
In much the same way that you need to have the proper equipment, paper and chemicals to properly make a print from a negative, you need to have the proper software and hardware to make a print from a digital file. There are formats of old photography which have been lost - the paper isn't made, the chemicals aren't made, the machines have all been destroyed - and the same exact thing will happen with digital photography.
And now a days... professional printers are converting negatives to digital to print them.
As digital photographers, we are all now bound to the duty to keep up with and continually convert our data to new formats. As beings living in a world of digital data, we are all now bound to the duty to keep up with and continually convert our data to new formats. Don't lose your current software before you convert, and you'll be fine.
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